Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879 Robert Gittings

Name: Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879 By Robert Gittings
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Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879 by Robert Gittings

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Claire Clairmont, stepsister of Mary Shelley and mother of Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, has never been given a full biographical treatment until this acclaimed biography by the late Robert Gittings and Jo Manton. Drawing on her vivid letters and journals, it portrays a woman of talent and resilience making her way in 19th-century Europe.

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Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879 by Robert Gittings

Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879 Reviews

This book is a joy to read ... her life has been rescued from oblivion and her memory made secure in this excellent and highly enjoyable biography. * Contemporary Review *
a glorious wealth of material ... enables the women of the past to speak for themselves ... a superbly readable life * Sunday Telegraph *

About Robert Gittings

The late Robert Gittings won prizes for John Keats: The Living Year (W.H. Smith Literary Award 1969); Young Thomas Hardy (Christian Gauss Award 1975); The Older Hardy (RSL Heinemann Award, 1979, James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1979); and with Jo Manton for Dorothy Wordsworth (Southern Arts Literature Prize, 1987). Jo Manton is author of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and with Robert Gittings The Second Mrs Hardy (1981) and Dorothy Wordsworth (OUP, 1987; pb Oxford Lives, 1988).

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GOR013590763

ISBN 13

9780198183518

ISBN 10

0198183518

Title

Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys 1798-1879 by Robert Gittings

Author

Robert Gittings

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Year published

19950601

Number of pages

292

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins